On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:16AM -0400, J. Hartzelbuck wrote: > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I might be going > wrong. Can anyone give any pointers?
(Hi, Chris.) I think you're saying you've made a modem connection to Internet using wvdial, but then can't get any further? Do you have a ppp connection established? Is there a default route? netstat -r ...should show 'default' and 'ppp0', if so. Do you have ip_forwarding turned 'on'? Try: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ...and you should get a result of '1'; if you don't, do: echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ...and that'll put it there. Do you have "policy" rules that are set to reject packets moving in or out of your own system? Do: ipchains -L ...to find out; if the 3 groups, "input", "output" and "forward" all show a policy of "reject" (which is their default), you'll wanna change that. If you're running a standalone system, you probably can do blanket 'accept' statements and not be leaving your system open to attack from "the outside world": ipchains -P input ACCEPT ipchains -P output ACCEPT ipchains -P forward ACCEPT ...will do that; it's likely you'll need to do that again, next time you reboot. And that's about -all- I know about this. :-) If there are finer points to it that should be added, maybe someone else will join in here and let us know...? -- -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve."